OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Palestine Exploration Quarterly is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Edom at the Edge of Empire: A Social and Political History	11
Acknowledgements	6
Miniature Terracotta Masks from the Decapolis City of Gerasa/Jerash, Jordan	4
Professor Alan Millard retires from PEQ Editorial Advisory Board	4
On the Archaeology of 10th CenturybceIsrael and the Idea of the ‘State’	4
Double Review: Re-Excavating Jerusalem: Archival Archaeology & Revealing the History of Ancient Palestine Re-Excavating Jerusalem: Archival Archaeology , by Kay Prag	2
Agency, Kinship and the Case of the Northern Kingdom of Israel	2
Notes and News	2
Bronze Anklets from Ḥorvat Tevet (Jezreel Valley): New Light on Exchange and Identity Construction in the Iron I	2
On Olive Oil and Perfume Production in Iron Age IIA Tell es Safi/Gath, Israel	2
The Level V City Wall at Lachish	2
The Urban Renovation of Samaria–Sebaste of the 2nd and 3rd centuriesce: Observations on some architectural artefacts	2
Something borrowed, something new? Semitic loanwords and transcriptions in the Greek epigraphy of Palestine and Arabia	1
Walking Palestine: 25 Journeys into the West Bank	1
Chronology and Strategic Significance of the Hilltop Fortress, Umm Tawabin in Jordan: Some Conclusions from the 2015-2018 Survey and Excavations by the Ghor As-Safi Project	1
From Nabataeo-Arabic to Palaeo-Arabic: Two new pre-Islamic graffiti from the Jordanian Ḥarrah	1
A Note on the Dedication of the Churches in Shivta	1
The Identity of the Leaders of the Second Jewish Revolt and Bar Koseba's True Role in the Insurrection	1
Professor Alan Millard	1
On the Mediaeval and Ottoman Syro-Jordanian Hajj Roads to Mecca: The Pilgrim Camps in their Landscapes	1
Georgian Graffito from Nessana, Dating to the ‘Dark Age’ of Christianity in Palestine	1
Establishing a baseline for the study of maritime cultural heritage in the Gaza Strip	1
The cultural biography of two volute capitals at Iron Age Hazor	1
Daily life and cultural appropriation in Early Bronze Age Canaan: Games and gaming in a domestic neighbourhood at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel	1
Decorated Bone Tube Manufacture in Early Bronze Age Israel: Experimental Analysis of Bone Preparation and Incising	1

Beit Loya: Historicising Marginal Sites in Late Islamic Rural Palestine	1
Insufficient evidence for metal butchering marks at Tell el-Hesi during the Early Bronze Age: Critique of the analysis of microscopic grooves in ‘Cultural Modification Analyses on Faunal Remains in Re	1
Biblical Ziklag: the Case for Khirbet er-Ra‘i	1
Barbara Lee Johnson (1943–2022)	1
Atlas of Palestine 1871-1877	0
Fibulae of the Southern Levant During the Iron Age II: Chronology, Inter-Regional Connectivity and Performance	0
Jerusalem’s Northern Defences Under Hadrian	0
An inscription from the Badia: Documenting evidence for the plague in the Mameluke Period	0
Notes and News	0
Hidden in plain sight	0
The Meṣad Ḥashavyahu Ostracon in its Regional, Economic, and Political Context	0
Invisible Excavators: The Quftis of Megiddo, 1925–1939	0
Nine new Byzantine Funerary Inscriptions from El-ʿIrāq (Southern Jordan)	0
The Ḥarrah ’s Epigraphic Heritage: New Greek inscriptions from the black desert in north-eastern Jordan	0
Life at the Dead Sea: Proceedings of the International Conference held at the State Museum of Archaeology Chemnitz (smac), February 21–24, 2018, Chemnitz	0
On the Origins of the Tel Nami Pyxides	0
Some thoughts about Words	0
An Iron Age II ceramic figurine from Umm Sweiwineh, Central Jordan	0
Books Received	0
Jonathan Nicholas Tubb21st December, 1951 – 25th September, 2023	0
Old Ground Plan - New Insights: The Central Church Compound in Shivta Revised	0
Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City	0
The Use of Greek in Palestine: Eupolemus as a Case Study	0
The City Walls of Lachish: Response to Yosef Garfinkel, Michael Hasel, Martin Klingbeil and Their Colleagues	0
Kom Tuman II: Late Period to Graeco-Roman Pottery, Volumes I and II	0
The 2011 Season of Excavation at Gadara (Umm Qais) of the Decapolis	0
Acknowledgements	0
A Summary Report – PEF Grant: ‘Khirbat al-Mafjar Archaeological Project, Jericho’	0
John Bartlett, unintentional mentor	0
Ashkelon 8: The Islamic and Crusader Periods	0
A Reassessment of the Chronology of the Iron Age site of Khirbet en-Nahas, Southern Jordan	0
Guest Editorial: Gaza's Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Life	0
Dating the Fortress of Umm Tawabin, Jordan: Results of Radiocarbon Dating Analysis	0
The Four-Chambered Gate at Megiddo	0
The Petra Hinterland Social Landscapes Project (PHSLP): Summary Report on the First Season, 2022	0
The Road Taken: An Archaeologist’s Journey to the Land of the Bible The Road Taken: An Archaeologist’s Journey to the Land of the Bible , by Seymour (Sy) Gitin, The Penn	0
The Roman-Period Road Network in Southern Moab: A Geographic and Historical Enquiry	0
Faynan, Nomads and the Western Negev in the Early Iron Age: A Critical Reappraisal	0
A Mameluke-period terracotta juglet from Umm Zweitineh, Jordan	0
Desert Insurgency: Archaeology, T.E. Lawrence, and the Arab Revolt	0
An Artist in Abydos: The Life and Letters of Myrtle Broome	0
How to Date a City Wall? The Case Study of Middle Bronze Age Lachish	0
Hesi after 50 Years and 130 Years: Beginning a New Generation of Hesi Research,	0
Exploring the Holy Land: 150 years of the Palestine Exploration Fund	0
A Chalcolithic presence east of the Sea of Galilee: The earliest finds on Mt. Sussita	0
‘Diocletian oppressed the inhabitants of Paneas’ (ySheb. 9:2): A New Tetrarchic boundary stone from Abel Beth Maacah	0
An Iron Age Stone Toilet Seat (the ‘Throne of Solomon’) from Captain Montagu Brownlow Parker’s 1909–1911 Excavations in Jerusalem	0
Books Received	0
Bathing Jewish, Bathing Greek: Developing an Approach to De-Categorising Hellenism and Judaism	0
Reading between the tesserae: The Tabgha mosaics’ stages, patronage, and authenticity re-examined	0

Acknowledgements	0
‘The loss of a minute is just so much loss of life’: Edward Robinson and Eli Smith in the Holy Land	0
Preserving Palestinian Cultural Heritage: ‘The Memory of History’ Project	0
In the Footsteps of Honor Frost: The Life and Legacy of a Pioneer in Maritime Archaeology	0
Caesarea Maritima Excavations in the Old City 1989-2003 Conducted by the University of Maryland and the University of Haifa, Final Reports. Volume 1Caesarea Maritima Excavations in the Old City 198	0
Guest Editorial: The Rockefeller Museum	0
Script and Society: The Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit	0
Acknowledgements	0
Juliusz Słowacki in the Holy Land in 1837	0
Investigating changing socio-economic landscapes from the Early Bronze I–III in the Levant through Zooarchaeology	0
An Accidental Archaeologist: A Personal Memoir An Accidental Archaeologist: A Personal Memoir , by Eric M. Meyers, Cascade Books, Eugene, Oregon, 1922, xiii + 218 pp, 34	0
Rev. Professor John R Bartlett	0
Building 101 at Tel ‘Eton, the Low Chronology, and the Perils of a Bias-Perpetuating Methodology: A Response and a Proposal for the Study of All the Phases in the History of Buildings	0
Contributions to the Archaeology of Palestine by Overlooked Twentieth-Century Palestinian Archaeologists, Yusra Al-Ḥaifawiyah, Naṣr Dwekat and Ibrahim Al-Fanni	0
A Dedication ‘to the Olympian Gods’ for Hadrian’s Sōtēria : Saluting the Emperor’s Rural Passage through Syria-Palestina	0
Tel ‘Afar (Tell al-Akhdar): A Monastic or Estate Church on theVia MarisSouth of Caesarea	0
‘Sacred Landscapes’: The Umayyad Syro-Jordanian Hajj Roads to Mecca and their Pilgrim Camps (PEF 2020 Grant) and towards final publication of the Umayyad Syro-Jordanian	0
The Murder of James Leslie Starkey near Lachish. A different view from a Colonial Office file	0
Temporal change in traditional knowledge and use of wild plants in Artas, Palestine	0
A Hiding Complex and Ritual Bath (Miqveh) at Ḥorvat Maskana and the Question of Their Use in the Byzantine Period	0
The Price of Conflict: Devastation of Cultural Heritage in War and Political Strife, the West Bank as a Case Study	0
Filling the gap: A microscopic zooarchaeological approach to changes in butchering technology during the Early and Middle Bronze periods at Tall Zirā´a, Jordan	0
The Case of the Two Volute Capitals from Tel Hazor	0
Under the Mediterranean I: Studies in Maritime Archaeology	0
A Roman Bronze Figurine of a Seated Infant from Shivta in the Negev	0
The End of Arabah Copper Production and the Destruction of Gath: A Critique and an Alternative Interpretation	0
The Changing Character of Iron Age Jerusalem as Revealed in the Ophel Excavations	0
Moses Wilhelm Shapira, Hermann Weser and the Moab Expedition: Provenance Study of the Moabitica	0
Acknowledgements	0
‘I am sorry for troubling you with the bother of replying! But I really want to know’: An unpublished letter by T. E. Lawrence to Max van Berchem about a Mameluke inscription from Naqb (Sinai/Negev)	0
Charles Warren: Royal Engineer in the Age of Empire	0
Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City	0
The 2022 survey season at Khirbet al-Mudayna al-ʿAliya, Jordan	0
Strategies of Animal Exploitation in Late Iron Age IIA Ḥorvat Tevet (the Jezreel Valley) Reveal Patterns of Royal Economy in Early Monarchic Israel	0
Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth	0
Books Received	0
To Flip or not to Flip	0
The Career of Moses Shapira, Bookseller and Antiquarian	0
Machaerus I: History, Archaeology and Architecture of the Fortified Herodian Royal Palace and City Overlooking the Dead Sea in Transjordan. Final Report of the Excavations and Surveys 1807–2012	0
‘Nevermind the Camel!’: The Hogarth Archive and the Wilderness of Zin	0
Why those who Shovel are Silent: A History of Local Archaeological Knowledge	0
Sounds in the desert: New evidence of ambos in Shivta churches	0
Tatami: The Enigmatic Toponym of Western Judah, and Use of Suffixes in Dating Toponyms	0
The Fifth Milestation from Tiberias: A Newly Discovered Milestone in the Gennesaret Valley Illumines the Roman Arterial Network	0
Something old, something new: Ongoing revelations within the Faynan Landscape	0
The Unique Specialised Economy of Judah under Assyrian Rule and its Impact on the Material Culture of the Kingdom	0
Towards a Chronological Framing of the Two Mosques of Islamic Baydha	0
The Iron Age IIA ‘Benyaw Inscription’ on a Jar from Tel Abel Beth Maacah	0
Books Received	0
The representation of Judaea on Hadrian’s coins	0